Question How to display chatbox in admin only forum

[handyman]

How do I get the chat to only show in our admin forum.

 

[Fillip H.]

First I'll give you the canned response for how to put vBShout in a custom location:


To put vBShout in a custom location, do the following:


Step 1: AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout-> Instance Management -> [Edit].

Step 2: Change the Auto-Display Shoutbox setting to Disabled.

Step 3: Write down the the Varname setting. For the default shoutbox, it's instance1. The rest of this guide will assume you replace instance1 with the actual Varname if it is different.

Step 4: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw show.vbshout_instance1} (vB4) or {$show[vbshout_instance1]} (vB3) to the templates you wish the shoutbox to appear in.



For step 4, add it to FORUMDISPLAY.

Then, to make it display only in your admin forum, wrap the code from Step 4 in:

<vb:if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == x">

</vb:if>

 

[handyman]

Does the code need to be in a certain place in the template or can it be anywhere.

 

[Fillip H.]

Just wherever you want the Shoutbox to display within the forum display page